How easy it is to make people believe a lie, and how hard it is to undo that work again! (Mark Twain)
Perception adjustment time
U.S. District Judge Henry Hudson, a Bush appointee, strikes a blow for civil libertiesJC has a nice post about the recent federal court ruling throwing out the individual mandate from the Health Insurance Company Protection Act (HICPA) passed by Obama (usually referred to as “health care reform”). It’s one of those instances where the work of civil libertarians is being carried forward by principled conservatives while liberals sit on their hands. (The bill was pushed through congress by President Obama, a perceived liberal.)
Any fool can see that a mandate that we buy a product from a private company without a public option is immoral. Whether or not it is unconstitutional will end up in the hands of our right wing Supreme Court, and the odds are that this court will come down on Obama’s side, and against civil liberty.
Perceptions screwed up? Try adjusting them, and leaving reality as it is.
BTW – it has never occurred to me, ever, that I should not pay for my own health insurance. I simply want a broad pool free of for-profit leaches, so that our costs, like other industrialized countries, can be halved, and our entire population can be covered.
Without profit and loss, there is no economic measure of success – economic success measured as “solving problems for people”.
You earn money because you solve problems. If you did not solve problems, no one would pay you – and you would quickly figure out – by the lack of money in your wallet – that you are not solving problems.
You want economics – but without economic measure.
Thus, you end up trying to pilot a ship with no rudder subject to the whims of the wind. You will find your ship wrecked on the rocks, eventually.
Seems I’ve heard this before from some dude – oh yeah, what does he do – something like laying down hard and fast things about our economic nature that don’t even begin to play out in real life.
You should share these opinions with the other members of your group, if you can find him.
Piece of Mindful 
Mark
The immorality is demanding other people pay for you.
When this gets embedded into your programs, it is no wonder they become immoral and contradictory.
The optimum:
You pay for you.
I pay for me.
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BTW – it has never occurred to me, ever, that I should not pay for my own health insurance. I simply want a broad pool free of for-profit leaches, so that our costs, like other industrialized countries, can be halved, and our entire population can be covered.
Now, go play with your friends.
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Mark,
Without profit and loss, there is no economic measure of success – economic success measured as “solving problems for people”.
You earn money because you solve problems. If you did not solve problems, no one would pay you – and you would quickly figure out – by the lack of money in your wallet – that you are not solving problems.
You want economics – but without economic measure.
Thus, you end up trying to pilot a ship with no rudder subject to the whims of the wind. You will find your ship wrecked on the rocks, eventually.
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Seems I’ve heard this before from some dude – oh yeah, what does he do – something like laying down hard and fast things about our economic nature that don’t even begin to play out in real life.
You should share these opinions with the other members of your group, if you can find him.
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Mark,
Ignorance of economics creates economic disasters.
You are heading for one right now.
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Mark,
Next, you error in calling the system “insurance”.
It is no such thing.
You use it as a piggy bank that is funded by other people.
You put in pennies and expect to extract dollars.
Such a piggy bank is not sustainable.
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On your planet.
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Mark,
Correct.
Here on Earth, piggy banks do not rub two pennies together and produce dollars as offspring.
Whatever you take out more of then you put in must have been supplied by someone else.
Reality has a way, Mark, of sticking around whether you ignore it or not.
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